Does Snape Think Of Draco As The Son He Never Had?

[marika_thestral]

No: HPFGUIDX 77332

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Kelly" <keltobin at y...> wrote:

Marika wrote:
> > I'm not sure I agree that Draco is that much worse than James 
> Potter. 
> > Draco makes rude comments, he is spiteful towards Harry and his 
> > friends and he sniggers a lot. A few times he has done some 
really 
> > bad things, but it's not like his favourite sport is to attack an 
> > unprepared and lonely student and humiliate this person in front 
of 
> > all his class mates. 
> <snip>

Kelly's answer:
> I respectfully disagree.  I think humiliating unprepared and lonely 
> students is definitely one of Draco's favorite sports. A few 
examples:
> 
> In SS/PS when Draco puts Neville in the leg locker curse and forces 
> him to "bunny hop" back to Griffindor tower from the library?
> 
> The "Potter Stinks" buttons.
> 
> Numerous cruel attacks on Hermione concerning her appearance 
(teeth, 
> hair) and her Muggle parentage ("Mudblood" remarks).
> 
> His willingness to curse Harry with his back turned in the 
> famous "bouncing ferret" scene in GoF.
> 
> I also think that the Weasley is Our King in OoTP counts as 
> humiliating someone in front of their classmates.  Ron isn't 
exactly 
> the best person to deal with humiliation considering his low self-
> esteem.
> <snip>

Marika again:

Ooops, I had totally forgotten the "Neville-episode". You're right. 
That's absolutely a bad one. But when it comes to Harry and his 
friends, I believe that Draco feels justified in acting the way he 
does. I'm not saying he is - but in his mind he is just getting even. 
Harry humiliated him the first day at school when he turned down his 
offer of friendship. Harry reacted like every decent person would 
have done, but since Draco is raised to believe that your family 
history is important, he can't see what's so upsetting about his 
offer. 

Harry, Ron and Hermione stand up for each other. They are not lonely 
outsiders. When Potter and Black on the other hand attacked Snape, it 
seemed like they did it just for fun and that Snape didn't have any 
real friends. This might not be true, but for now, that's all we know.

I'm not trying to say that Draco is a nice guy. He isn't. But from 
what I have seen of him so far, I don't think he is a hundred times 
worse than James Potter. But he might be very soon, unless something 
happens to change his view of the world.

Marika